And we already met with MICT ( Media In Cooperation and Transition) to gather some of the video footage from some of their work with Middle East filmmakers… and Media Decompression crew have been connecting us to a slew of other ingenious contemporary films that are painting more attentive and attuned realities of the region, those views (and lives) being utterly obscured by the lunacy that passes for news about Iraq and Iran on the corporate agenda channels these days.

The story of the Pergamon in general and this exhibition in particular ( a collaboration of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Musée du Louvre and the Réunion des musées nationaux in Paris, as well as the British Museum in London) is super complex and we feel a little ill-at-ease playing here, but we’ll consider it XLT research, and hope to find time to write about how these artifacts and massive architectural ruins landed on Berlin’s Museum Insel. Ripe shit for XLT analysis!

7.11 and all weekend: MediaSpree Versenken! This news just in from the PanPiratin at AK Kraak ( also linked in previous entry below): Screening THIS friday night at heinrichplatz (Oranienstrasse) 21:30h and…

MORE Info here: http://www.ms-versenken.org/ and http://www.stressfaktor.squat.net/ and a letter from the folks at Ausland venue below explaining here the scenario + WHY You should be active in the situation. Or read our eng. text piece further below about Yaam and the bigger picture in a quik snapshot view of Investors vs. Life in the hood. New:

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